The Facts of Life

Didn't do much this weekend and it was wonderful. Actually I did get my Georgia license but that only took me 4 hours so the rest of my weekend was pretty relaxing.

Usually I'd be pretty bummed that I didn't do anything, but work has got me so wound up that this was really a welcomed change. Hopefully this will be the last time I'll have to talk about my job, but this isn't being realistic, since so much of my day is spent there.


The Bad - I work to damn much:
I'm supposed to be working 45 hours a week, but in actuality I've been averaging 50-60 hours. Most people have lunch at work, but how many have both lunch and dinner in their cubicles? I don't want to leave before the people that are already there when I get in, but these people just don't ever go home. Why do they hate their families, so?

And when I do leave, I have to endure either the disappointed look on someone's face as I tell them I won't be able to get to this or that until tomorrow, or this feeling that they're all watching me, thinking this guy just isn't committed to the company. And you know what, they're right. They don't pay me enough for this shit.

Sometimes I get home, talk to Melinda for a hour or so and go straight to bed (well to couch if you want to get technical - I still don't have a bed yet.) What sort of life is this? I'm not sure how much longer I can keep up this grueling pace.


The Good - I sort of like the work:
I've been doing some interesting stuff including writing a Linux interface in LabVIEW and writing some embedded software for a network test tool. This week I start playing around with HDTV signals for the European standards and designing a test system for said signals. I just wish I could do this stuff in a real language like C/C++, Java, or Visual Basic. LabVIEW is nice and all, but its just a bit to simple if you know what I mean.

Anyway its now midnight so I'm gonna hit the hay.